It’s embarrassing but it’s true, I just can’t keep it up. I’ve tried meditation, I’ve tried prayer, I’ve tried reaching out for help. Some solutions worked for a little while but nothing has remedied the underlying issue. No matter what I do, I simply just can’t keep it up. I expect most will be disappointed and let down, while others will just point and laugh. So be it, it’s a problem every man like me will face at some point.
One thing is true though, while I kept it up, it was glorious in many ways. It was the hardest (website to corrupt with CCP rules), it was the biggest (bundle of laughs ever… 4chan raids us and we didn’t even notice), it was bulging (with red pills and truth that you can’t find anywhere else), it was throbbing (with people eager to teach others the deception of the world). It’s so great in so many ways that it has a list of haters who will be extremely aroused by this post.
I know I’m going to get a hundred PMs from all of Voat’s hottest girls (Voat has some hot women, fact) with tips and tricks on how to help me keep it up. While I appreciate the concern and the offers of lending me a hand, we’re just going to have accept the situation for what it is- it’s just not going to be much fun for anyone.
/s (end of sarcasm)
What happened
I fight not being bitter and resentful. You see, this wasn’t supposed to happen, at least not now. The short of it is that the “Angel” defaulted on the contract in March 2020. This is when Voat lost all of it’s funding. I personally decided to keep Voat up until after the U.S. election of 2020. I’ve been paying the costs out of pocket but now I’m out of money.
A New Perspective
Instead of feeling pity or vengeful, I’m instead going to celebrate the fact that Voat stayed up for so long. In my opinion, Voat is and will always be the biggest dysfunctional family on the internet. Voat users were much more intimate with each other than other sites (chances are you have a handful of enemies and a handful of friends that you can list by name at a moment’s notice). Voat always had a better community dynamic than any other site on the internet. Considering everything, Voat was untouchable. There will never be another Voat and each of us had the opportunity to enjoy it. That’s awesome.
Some say life is worth it all if you can help just one single person. In this way I know Voat was worth it because you guys have changed thousands and thousands of people’s hearts and minds. You’ve made so many people aware of the lies taught as truth and the truth taught as conspiracy. It’s beautiful. What a great thing.
I love you all. Every single one of you. I hope you all have a life filled with overflowing joy and happiness. So many of you have been so selfless over the years, helping in so many ways. My heart is just touched when I think of all the good that was generated. Fucking love you guys (Say it in a slurred drunken voice).
Another great thing is that we stayed true over here on our end. Atko and I never betrayed our users. Never once. In fact, I can list example of example of how we ended up doing the right thing over what we wanted to do or what we felt like doing. I’ve come to find that doing the right thing is often the hardest thing. But we did it. We didn’t sell out and we passed the test.
The Sacrifice
I will lay Voat upon the cross on December 25th 2020 at 12 noon PST. I have chosen Christmas as the day to do so in honor of the only True thing you will find in this world and that is Jesus Christ, the son of God, and the only way to the Father. I chose 12 noon in honor of the twelve disciples who spread the message of salvation to the world. In this way, my hope is that perhaps 12 people will carry the cross for Freedom of Speech and sacrifice part of their lives for an ideal in the way I did, but hopefully with much more success, glory, and reward.
The Triumph of Defeat
It seems like a great time to share one of my favorite quotes, so I will leave it here.
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
For those who I’ve let down, please forgive me. I’m sorry Atko. I love you like a brother.
Edit:
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You guys crack me up, even now you accuse me of being mossad or a honey pot. If I keep it up or shut it down I'm the same thing. Damned if you do, damned it you don't.
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Trust me, I want to drop every dirty detail about the Angel and the act of betrayal that Voat has suffered. But it is written:
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay", saith the Lord. Romans 12:19
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Do not say, “I will do to him as he has done to me; I will pay the man back for what he has done.” Proverbs 24:29
- The secret reality of the world we live in is that winners and losers are chosen by the power structure. If you don't play the game, you don't get any prizes (aka $$$). Shutting down is the consequence of not compromising ideals.
I chose a noble death.
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uvulectomy ago
1. LET PEOPLE DONATE
2. If the "angel" defaulted on their contract, NAME AND SHAME THEM.
3. LET. THE. PEOPLE. DONATE. Seriously, bitcoin, dogecoin, etherium, money order, envelopes with cash, whatever. Allow the users to anonymously donate in order to keep this place running, because we need it now more than ever. Don't let the fucking kikes win.
@PuttItOut @Atko
Nfn8wzdm ago
That he doesn't WANT to keep it open should tell you all you need to know.
What if this was all a psyop to make us look crazy.
You have to admit there is some crazy shit here that only hurt the cause. ie Hillary in jail, the mole kids, Dumbs, looking glass.
KeepVoatAfloat2020 ago
I'm now accepting bitcoin donations at 3DM2dGoVMZbQgNtKVdaqLzk1EcfcTcBNKb, let's keep this site afloat into the new year!
RetardLand ago
Monero as well, nice privacy crypto.
MaunaLoona ago
It's over. Let it go.
New-World-Ebola ago
why would you donate to a faggot that gives up on the community here?
someone else needs to takeover.
MASSIVENIGGERCOCK ago
You have not enough goy foreskins to offer sir. Hustle up a few terrified children and a wheel barrow full of dead babies and you may be permitted to pass.
Israel_Did_9_11_ ago
Spoiler: the "angel" was a kike
Diggernicks ago
I'll bet $ it was a catholic
Israel_Did_9_11_ ago
Hey kike
uvulectomy ago
All the more reason to name them.
viperx3791 ago
I agree. Please don't shut it down.
anoncastillo ago
This is why we need a backup. A friend of mine created this sub on 9chan a few months ago just in case something like this happened: https://9chan.tw/voat
generalcalm ago
what about on urbit?
RiverWind ago
9chan could be bought or censored just like Voat. We need a new protocol for a new platform, not a new website. The best solution I know is Aether:
https://getaether.net
https://voat.co/v/whatever/4170305
grace8 ago
The original open-source code that makes the foundation for saidit site is copyright 2006-2015 reddit Inc., all rights reserved. Read more at: http://code.reddit.com Powered by reddit and Aaron Swartz's code.
The current open-source code for Saidit is available here: https://github.com/libertysoft3/reddit-ae
anoncastillo ago
Windows says it's scary (which doesn't mean much). What's aether like?
RiverWind ago
I have used Aether well over a year without problem. It is actively developed and just had a big new release. The client is well designed. You ought to go into the settings and set some settings like whether you want to allow it to show you thumbnails and subscribe to some NSFW subs. The people are tech nerds. Launch the client and let it run. It takes a while to connect to the network, maybe a couple of minutes. Lots more lurkers than posters.
Aether is technically brilliant and just what the Voat community needs at this time. It is just a case of people becomning familiar with it, and you will only hear about it from Aether users, as it doesn't advertise. Aether is released under the GPL.
cantaloupe6 ago
What temporary site could be use presently?
RiverWind ago
https://getaether.net
Download and install the client and get going. This is by far the best solution.
The second best choice is probably https://notabug.io
Thirdly: https://searchvoat.co
The Voat community will look at the options and make a choice. Hopefully it will be based on which is the best engineered solution and most likely to provide free speech for the long term and help the community survive. If those are the grounds used, then Aether is the best option. If the decision is based on "what is popular right now" or "am i familiar with it", then people will likely go elsewhere.
voatuser1128 ago
Link doesn't work.
DerivaUK ago
Works for me
Nigger_Loving_Jew ago
Works for me
https://9chan.tw/voat/catalog
anoncastillo ago
Works for me.
chigbungus ago
Monero is the better option - it has privacy baked in to the protocol.
uvulectomy ago
True, but the more options the better. Especially for those who don't give two fucks if the alphabet kikes see what they're doing (or maybe they want them to, as a "fuck you").
andrew_white_forever ago
He would be able to do a PO Box at least for a little while before it got shut down. @PuttitOut you could raise $50k in a month with a PO box
generate ago
fuck PO box, crypto
Silverlining ago
https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936/26900706
gazillions ago
Name the angel and put a permanent sticky up saying how to pay. There's nothing wrong with making some money on top of running the site..
Lucifer33rd ago
"Name the angel."
You rang?
kaonashiii ago
fag
TheGook ago
I'd like to know who they are.
uvulectomy ago
Even just a permanent sidebar thing for "how to contribute" would work. More Voat merch would be nice as well.
invisiblephrend ago
...there's voat merch?
Derpfroot ago
There used to be, but it was only a few things in limited quantities...and it only happened twice, IIRC.
LeeDoverwood ago
Also a side bar where people can sell their products and voat.co gets a percentage. Kind of sad owner makes such a snap decision. The site can be monetized with donations and ad space.
CoonFist ago
second
illuminalto2 ago
We're not being given a chance it seems.
Whole lotta "I cant do it" and not a lotta "Yo atko passed this on cause he couldn't do it, does someone else want to do it?"
Goats have money.
This isn't an existential problem.
Easily solveable.
obvious-throwaway- ago
Diversity hire feds are shutting it down. Log files with IP addresses are probably already in the hands of some nigger tranny getting ready to sick their faggot antifa on us.
illuminalto2 ago
I think they'd rather have people shooting and making a spectacle.
Going after a bunch of (seemingly) lazy assholes on an anonymous board seems like over-pruning or harvesting too early.
They built up the incitement up till this point, I think they want people to snap and start trying to "constitutional justice" so they can get the rest of the people to finally turn the corner against whitey and guns.
Just trying to think about the biggest payoff for them.
theshopper ago
That's why when it starts it must be unimaginable in both scope and speed. Half measures will solidify the power structure we have today for generations.
BoomerHater1488er ago
It has been tried before like two or three years ago. Generally what happens is that there is a massive surge of donations. The site is funded for two or three months.
Then the people who donated stop because they figure they did their share.
The people who didn't donate continue to not donate, and the site runs out of money.
It's expensive to keep a site like Voat up.
Mystiker ago
So just have yearly donation drives, like Wikipedia does, and be transparent about how much money is remaining. Seriously, these problems are not hard to solve...
892012518HEROS ago
This seems like a very well timed demolition destroy everything dont give the enough time to archive and fill the site with so much useless BS the people archive are wasting valuable time and resources.
bonghits4jeebus ago
I can't really qualify what a massive surge would be unless I had some idea what was required. I mean Putt's got every right to shut it down. I just feel like it could work. Tried once 3 years ago is not trying. But like I said, Putt doesn't owe anyone anything.
totallynotFBI ago
Bullshit. A transparent report of the funding level and time remaining along with a donate button would have been all it took. It's obvious he doesn't have the time to put into even basic management of the site. It's not about money.
BoomerHater1488er ago
You're overestimating how long the hype lasts.
enoughreddit ago
Ok then build up the donations at once, live off that then do it again when you're a few months out from losing it
This isn't a complicated issue
Ken_bingo2 ago
Bullshit. The Burning Platform has been funded successfully by user donations for years. And it doesn't have near the user base.
GreenSlug ago
Dont forget the time voat got some bitcoin that then inflated and funded voat with like a million dollars worth of bitcoin. Lack of funding has NEVER been the issue, lack of taking our funding has been, lack of telling us they need funding has been
pizzawithgreenchile ago
I remember it was worth $14k at the time of the donation.
drovid ago
then it's twice that now
Vc83 ago
If fucking kikepedia needs to ask for donations then they can make this work
drovid ago
this
kikes have no shame asking for gibs and shekels, why the fuck can't voat do the same?
our christian morals are proving to be a weakness if I'm being honest here
Mystiker ago
Christians have donated to charity for thousands of years, there is absolutely nothing morally wrong with it. Perhaps you're confusing Christianity with (((cuckservatives)))?
VoatsNewfag ago
Make it a "we funded x% of our costs this month" kind of deal. Like a bunch of other websites that are more transparent about their finances.
And even a few more months of voat would've been interesting, since some interesting stuff might happen until the inauguration in 2021.
But that could just as well be a good reason to ditch voat in time.
logjam ago
I have a feeling that around 12 on the 25th some interesting stuff might happen.
Diverscale ago
Pleas stop predicting. Not just you, but every ''precog'' on every conspiracy forum or twitter account, never, EVER get it right, and at the end, you all make us look bad.
logjam ago
You're right. I broke my own rule of thumb here. WAs just fucking shocked when I got to this news today.
VoatsNewfag ago
Maybe. To my knowledge Trump called for a protest january 6. "Be there, be wild". If I had to pick a date where stuff might happen, that would be my guess. That would also be after holidays, where people might be more inclined to think about family than politics.
hg74rhyd9 ago
Gab does that, and their costs are pretty high.
Query1 ago
Yeah, people talk a big game about how they would keep it going but in reality, they get slack real quick. It's nearly the end of the month and Gab hasn't managed to get even 50% funding for the month.
VoatsNewfag ago
If it wouldn't cover the costs he could rightfully claim that he tried. And we would still have a place to discuss the great transition/reset or whatever is about to come in early 2021.
weezkitty ago
For a "free speech" site, it sure is lacking transparency. Not a single word about finances for 9 months? I don't fucking buy it
Silverlining ago
Well if you think you've got it all sorted with a contract with an angel, and then the angel pulls the rug, you're going to be despondent. It seems morally wrong to just shut the site without offering it to someone else to run. He could retain the right to take it back.
Mystiker ago
Yeah, but despondent for 9 months? And then giving 3 days notice, rather than minimum 1 week notice? Seems so fishy.
kishind ago
So... do an annual donation drive like so many other publicly funded operations?
illuminalto2 ago
How expensive? That is the question.
$1k /mo?
$3k?
$5k?
$10k?
It's a logistical problem that is solveable.
ThisNameAlreadyTaken ago
Saitit.net had a funding drive (it's another site like voat and poal). They did all the backend themselves. They just had to pay for bandwidth. They have relatively the same number of subscribers as voat. As I recall, it was on the order of a few hundred a month. He was able to secure funding and keep the site going with donations. Of course, he isn't being paid to run the site. That might be a problem for the site here. A good sysadmin can bring in $100K at a "real job" that has set hours and doesn't lead to burnout. So that's on the order of $10K per month just for his salary if he needs to be paid. Then there is the actual equipment on the backend doing the hosting. That isn't free. I would gather if you added it all up, maybe $15K per month plus some extra for insurance, taxes, etc. Maybe $25K total.
oneinchterror ago
I highly doubt Saidit has as many users as Voat. That said, if they can fund themselves so can we.
BoomerHater1488er ago
Yeah, that's the tricky part. I have absolutely no idea, but it's not the cost of hosting the site that's expensive so much as the DDoS protection that really makes it pricey.
IrbyTremors ago
Why have we not been told? Why has it not been tried? These are the questions we need to be asking right now.
Glipglup ago
The same reason he's still ignoring replies from people in this thread, because it's a big government psyop run by kikes. You think it's a coincidence this is happening now? I warned everyone a long time ago what Voat was but y'all didn't want to listen.
IrbyTremors ago
Idk what kind of shitty psyop redpills people on Jews. Unless you mean the Q nonsense.
DBExactor ago
I thought that was part of the fun. It's been a great experience in testing my more pessimistic hypothesis. And wasting government resources.
illuminalto2 ago
Right but what's the number?
I know we can afford it.
Angryelectrician ago
there are niggers on here still squating with their parents.
lostinapes ago
I run roughly 20 t3.xlarge in a production environment in aws for about 5k a month. Who knows what kind of hosting service a website like this needs to use though. The problem is most places would probably kick you off.
Silverlining ago
I'm sure the 8Kun outfit would take it.
BoomerHater1488er ago
I wish I could remember. I think he gave us a figure last time, but I can't remember. I think it was around $5,000 a month, but I can't remember if that was the grand total, or only DDoS protection.
thor7 ago
Just like Wikipedia or any other sites, it would be trivial to implement a progress bar of donations for the given month/quarter displayed in the nav bar.
Silverlining ago
I have $10k in my head.
joeballer ago
Hint: his initials were DJT